Rise of the Dragon

Readings from Nature on the Chinese Fossil Record

By: Henry Gee (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 November 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal "Nature." "Rise of the Dragon" gathers together sixteen of these original reports, some augmented with commentaries originally published in "Nature"'s "News and Views" section.
Perhaps the best known of these new Chinese fossils are the famous feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning Province, which may help end one of the most intense debates in paleontology--whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. But other finds have been just as spectacular, such as the minutely preserved (to the cellular level) animal embryos of the 670 million-year-old Duoshantuo phosphorites, or the world's oldest known fish, from the Chengjiang formation in southwestern Yunnan Province.
"Rise of the Dragon" makes descriptions and detailed discussions of these important finds available in one convenient volume for paleontologists and serious fossil fans.

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Foreword
Introduction
Three-Dimensional Preservation of Algae and Animal Embryos in a Neoproterozoic Phosphorite Shu-Hai Xiao
Animal Embryos in Deep Time
A Pipiscid-like Fossil from the Lower Cambrian of South
An Early Cambrian Craniate-like Chordate
Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China
Catching the First Fish
A Primitive Fossil Fish Sheds Light on the Origin of Bony Fishes
Something Fishy in the Family Tree Per
An Exceptionally Well-Preserved Theropod Dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of China
Feathers, Filaments and Theropod Dinosaurs
A Therizinosauroid Dinosaur with Integumentary Structures from China
A Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur with a Filamentous Integument from the Yixian Formation of China
Two Feathered Dinosaurs from Northeastern China
When Is a Bird Not a Bird?
A Diapsid Skull in a New Species of the Primitive Bird Confuciusornis
A Chinese Triconodont Mammal and Mosaic Evolution of the Mammalian Skeleton
At the Roots of the Mammalian Family Tree
A New Symmetrodont Mammal from China and Its Implications for Mammalian Evolution
Biostratigraphy of New Pterosaurs from China
Palaeobiology: A Refugium for Relicts
A Refugium for Relicts? Makoto Manabe
Cretaceous Age for the Feathered Dinosaurs of Liaoning
Supplementary Information
Contributors
Index
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